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  1. GMAS C-27J, manufactured in Florida. Alenia built all the non-US aircraft, but partnered with L-3 to build the C-27J's bought by the US Army in Florida. 38 ordered in 2007 by the Army, program was turned over to the USAF in 2009 (who reduced the buy to the 16 delivered airframes and 5 too near completion to cancel) and all 21 delivered airframes were quickly retired in 2013 with 7 being repurposed by SOCOM and the remaining 14 turned over to USCG (of which 5 are in service with 9 more being outfitted).
  2. Model Air is pre-thinned, Model Color is ready to brush> As to matches, there's a number of opinions out there, especially since Vallejo's official matches are sometimes baffling. Their RLM matches are generally OK though (it's the RAF ones that have a few howlers)
  3. Might reach out to Viking, see if they are willing to help.
  4. All of the production Crusaders did have slats, there's landing pictures of the XF8U-1 showing them. It's possible that flaps were a later addition, when the E went up in weight, the variable-incidence wing and slats would have mostly replaced the need on the lighter early variants. The only non-slatted Crusader I'm aware of was the TF-8A
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    F6F-5N weathering

    Looks like I have some hunting to do, not much since I'd just buy the Eduard kit anyways (having those markings just means it'll be the Profipack instead of the Weekend)
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    F6F-5N weathering

    Does anyone do decals for these birds? Love to have a US F6F with something other than a plain nose or sharkmouth
  7. Frankly, I like both options, as I'll build numerous aircraft from a single squadron, and will also buy sheets for a particular type. Squadron history sheets are awesome though.
  8. The AF didn't need the Intruder, it had better platforms for the same role, because it wasn't limited to what could fit on a carrier. For most of the A-6's career the USAF operated the F-111 in the same role (precision all-weather strike). The F-111 could carry nearly twice as much load, faster & further than the A-6. By the time the A-6E had proven more capable than the F-105 (the previous USAF aircraft for that role) the F-111 was already in service. Remember that while the F-111 had teething issues in the strike role, the A-6A also had major teething issues due to its unreliable avionic
  9. Virtually every F-4 family on the market has started with the short-nose variants. You get so many schemes for so little extra tooling. I expect to see long-nose F-4's from Academy (soon) and ZM (eventually).
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    P-51b/c lenght

    It's the D/K which had different spinners, although as far as I'm aware the spinners were the same length, they just varied in the distance from the prop to the backplate.
  11. And unfortunately one scheme is erroneous. The Fennec is a rebuilt A, not a rebuilt B (D's were built from B airframes). So unless the A canopy is included, you can't do that scheme accurately (actually, there's a few other minor differences between a Fennec and a D due to their differing origins)
  12. Depends on where you are. Around here car models are the poor stepchild of the market. Planes and Armour dominate. Only one local store even carries a decent selection of cars (and mostly because there's a couple dedicated car guys on staff). Of course, up here in Canada motorsports are not nearly as popular as in the US or Europe.
  13. I'm extremely lucky, Toronto is pretty much heaven in terms of LHS's. We've got two of the best Model Railroad shops on the continent (Credit Valley Railway Co and George's Trains), multiple excellent scale plastic shops (including Wheels and Wings, again one of the best shops on the continent) and multiple excellent RC shops. And there's enough crossover between lines that all of those shops are worth visiting even for a specialist (as someone active in all three hobby segments it's wonderful). The only downside? All of the above had consistent issues getting paint from companies other than
  14. I'm no fan of Testors MM paint (hate the stuff actually), but they're one of the two lines you can be guaranteed to find in any hobby store in North America, and Tamiya's paint selection is far smaller (even if it's much better paint). If you do German WW2 or modern US stuff it's been the defacto standard. Here in Canada, mail order of paint is almost a no-go (it's near-impossible to get through customs), so it comes down to local selection and that's always Tamiya, MM and if you're lucky Vallejo.
  15. Neat, looks like the first step towards a Bear.
  16. Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (not Bayerische Motorien Werke, a different company that exists to this day) became Messerschmitt AG in 1938, long before the Gustav
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    F4U-5N cockpit

    Based on the pictures, it was built as a -5N, converted to a regular -5 by Argentina (although retaining some -5N features like the exhaust flash hiders) and now flies in -7 paint after restoration.
  18. Hmm, that He70 and I-153 look interesting. The F4U-4 as well, as long as they do a better job than they did with their F4U-1D(ish) that it's likely based on. But probably not unless they completely retooled the fuselage (the nose on their -1D is just wrong, and they boxed it as a -1A when you can't make a -1A from it without modification)
  19. Hope they do a Fennec boxing, so I can build my Dad's Fennec.
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    F-15E

    Also rudders are seen swapped over.
  21. I would think the only repainting was the markings. These were GSB in French Service.
  22. About time, this is likely to be my first HK kit.
  23. Sadly Floquil is no longer with us. The good news? The colour is actually PFE Orange and there will be an option from pretty much every maker of railroad paints for the US market, since there were tens of thousands of reefers painted in that colour, for the PFE and several major western railroads.
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    Whats an F?

    Even earlier, the F-8 was a dogfighter by design, despite also being AAM capable by design and the F-14's early design process in the mid/late 60's was ACM-oriented. There was only 15 years between the two aircraft, the last of the old-school dogfighters and the first of the new school (and worth remembering that the XF8U-3 lost out to the F4H only because the workload of operating Sparrows was considered too much for a single crew aircraft, the -3 was quite nimble). It was BVR AAM's that gave people the idea that dogfighting was dead, but that only lasted around 10 years (from the design pro
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